Photography was still relatively new in 1861 as the Civil War began, ... Click here to see 25 horrifying images of the Civil War. ... Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, in 1865. [in-text-ad] ...

A photo gallery of images from the Civil War battlefields. ... April 1865. Credit: Library of Congress; A dead Confederate soldier where he fell in a trench in Petersburg,VA, April 3, 1865.

The other five landscape images known to have been taken in York date from the spring of 1865. They show the United States Army General Hospital on Penn Common (now Penn Park).

The Civil War changed the social, economic, and political landscape for women from every walk of American life—perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of nursing.

The 50 Most Powerful Images From the Civil War. From lash marks on a slave's back to bombs bursting over Charleston, these pictures bring a turbulent era to life.

Aaron Sheehan-Dean spoke on the events of the last months of the Civil War, the participants' experiences, and the post-war world. He discussed the perspectives of the white southerners, the black ...